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These Hermit Crabs Are Using Our Garbage as Shells
In 2010, photographer Shawn Miller spotted a hermit crab using a bottle cap as a shell. Later, he found the crabs using discarded measuring cups and laundry detergent caps. He was understandably ...
What’s causing hermit crabs to riot under water
In their attempts to seek out abandoned shells of sea snails to save themselves from predators, they are prone to a ...
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Woman Offers Large Shell to Hermit Crab Living Inside a Piece of PVC Pipe. Here’s What Happened
She carried it to her home and tried searching for an appropriate-sized mollusk shell, which hermit crabs usually inhabit for protection, on the beach but luck was not on her side. Amill did not ...
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Hermit crabs
Sometimes when a new shell turns up, hermit crabs will form a ... Plastic pollution is also a problem for hermit crabs, which often mistake a plastic bottle cap or container for a new home.
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For Animals, Plastic Is Turning the Ocean Into a Minefield
PHOTOGRAPH BY BRIAN LEHMANN On Okinawa, Japan, a hermit crab resorts to a plastic bottle cap to protect its soft abdomen. Beachgoers collect the shells the crabs normally use, and they leave trash ...